1990 Articles
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on September 1990"Environmental tankers," as classified by DNV, are now under production. The first two ships, of Suezmax size, were recently ordered from Daewoo by Nynas Petroleum of Sweden, and Neste of Finland. Apart from double bottoms and double skins, reliable cargo handling and level gaging are vital
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., was recently awarded a contract to supply Peterson Builders of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., with three shipsets of controllable pitch (CP) propeller systems for the U.S. Navy MCM-12, -13 and -14 Avenger- Class Mine Countermeasure Ships. Bird-Johnson also supplied
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Kloster Cruise Limited, Coral Gables, Fla., has ordered two new 40,000-ton, 1,220-passenger ships, to be launched in late 1992 and early 1993 as part of the company's Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Cruise Line fleets. The cruise ships will be built in St. Nazaire, France at the Chantiers de
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990The CIG® Pump Series, available from IMO Pump Division, now includes a double pump design for multi-staging and multi-pump applications. The double units, consisting of two CIG pumps assembled on a common shaft with a common suction port, provide important OEM design advantages for applicati
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Campbell Chain, a division of CooperTools, formulated a new galvanizing process that reportedly will increase chain life by more than 60 percent. Used in galvanized Campbell chain, the new cold particle process substitutes for the traditional, difficult- to-control, hot molten metal process
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990SeaArk Marine, Inc., Monticello, Ark., a leading U.S. supplier of aluminum workboats for commercial and marine applications, will supply nineteen 23-foot oil spill recovery vessels to the Florida Department of Natural Resources under a recent contract. The vessels will be SeaArk Marine's 23
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990SSPA Systems, responsible for the development and marketing of the Roll-Nix Control System for roll reduction using rudder control, has now also taken over the marketing of the ETA-Pilot fuel saving system, an original product wholly developed and manufactured in Sweden and now available fro
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Matrix Desalination, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has introduced its new high-capacity Platinum Series® watermakers. The units are all custom-designed by Matrix engineers and built precisely to user requirements and operating conditions. They cost-effectively produce from 3,000 to 3,000,000
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Marine Safety International (MSI) recently announced that an emergency medical training program is being combined with the shiphandling course offered to personnel undergoing training at the Computer Aided Operations Research Facility (CAORF), operated by MSI at the U.S. Merchant Marine Aca
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Comsat Mobile Communications recently announced that it has suc- cessfully tested a new high-speed data service that will make it possible to transmit broadcast quality audio feeds from small land transportable and shipboard satellite terminals. The test, which was recently conducted by Coms
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) in cooperation with the Surface Navy Association (SNA) and the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., will sponsor a symposium in Biloxi, Miss., September 27-29,1990, at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum. The symposium is titled "Destr
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Service Marine Industries, Inc., a full service shipyard located at Amelia, La., has been awarded a contract by Premier Yachts, Chicago, 111., to design and build a 175- foot megayacht dinner/excursion boat. Premier Yachts will operate the vessel, the M/V Odyssey, which will have a beam of
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Chandris Celebrity Cruises' luxury liner SS Meridian recently arrived in New York following a major $55-million reconstruction at West German builder Lloyd Werft-Bremerhaven's shipyard. "The vessel was totally redesigned to support the new Celebrity product level," commented Harry A. Harala
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990The 29-foot, 12-passenger Ootsa Ranger, powered by twin Cummins engines and Hamilton waterjets, was recently delivered by British Columbia, Canada, builder Argo Marine Ltd. to Alcan Smelters & Chemicals Ltd., Kitimat, B.C. The vessel will be used to ferry loggers to timber harvesting sites.
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Tidewater Inc., New Orleans, La., announced recently that its marine division, Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., added ten crewboats and one supply vessel to its domestic fleet. All of the vessels will be based on the U.S. West Coast. "By acquiring high quality, used vessels, such as these, Ti
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990In March, Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner unveiled his much ballyhooed national transportation strategy. It proposed dramatic shifts in the responsibility for the nation's harbors, waterways and other transportation modes: State and local governments would have a greatly expanded
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Event Scheduled For September 26-28 Some 400 business, civic and waterway leaders are expected to participate in the National Waterways Conference's 1990 annual meeting when the organization will mark its 30th anniversary. The meeting is scheduled for September 26-28 at the Inter-Continent
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990The grounding of the Exxon Valdez and the resulting oil spill caused the Coast Guard to reevaluate the existing regulations governing the movement of tanker traffic on Prince William Sound. Soon after the spill, pilots were required to escort the tankers past Valdez Arm and into the open wat
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Furuno recently announced the availability in the U.S. of the Steenhans line of rugged, commercial quality shipboard communications equipment, consisting of the System P-4200 battteryless telephone and the System PK Command Intercom. The P-4200 will provide reliable communications even if al
-
pablished in:
Maritime Reporter
on August 1990Art Anderson Associates, consulting engineering and graphic design firm in Bremerton, Wash., recently hired four professionals to work on various marine projects currently underway in the company's Bremerton and Seattle, Wash., offices. M i c h a e l J. N u e r n b e r g er joined the mechan